Tag: freedom

I am super excited about a new digital download I’m offering! 31 Journaling Prompts For a Fresh Start launched on Sunday, and I’m very hopeful about what it can do for you. 31 Journaling Prompts For a Fresh Start is a PDF that you can print out and complete at your leisure. Journal one prompt Keep Reading

I turned 40 over the weekend. For a long time, I dreaded it. I did not want to turn 40. Every time my boyfriend teased me about it, or my kids mentioned it, I would groan and roll my eyes. I was not looking forward to it. But then a few weeks ago, it all Keep Reading

Like most meditation teachers, I had a regular personal meditation practice for several years before I became a teacher. The truth is I don’t remember exactly what prompted me to sit down and meditate that first time, but I do know what kept me doing it: the difference it made for me. After two really Keep Reading

Years ago, when I was building my house, there was a massive wildfire less than five miles away. It destroyed an old-growth forest full of towering pines and old oaks with limbs that stretched wide and low. For months afterward, all you would see when you drove past was flat, blackened land, with the occasional Keep Reading

Most of us have a list of things we do because we have to: working, housekeeping, cooking, errands, etc. And to some degree, we do have to do these things. We need money to support the life we want, we have to eat, we have to provide a home for our family. But what would Keep Reading

People often hear that life in your 20s is the best it’ll ever be. You’re young, often free, generally healthy, and able to do whatever you want. But are your 20s really the best time of your life? Or is that just a myth? Are Your 20s Really the Best Time of Your Life? Keep Reading

I have a handful of friendships that have carried forward from my teenage and very early young adult years — people I’ve known since high school or the two years or so immediately after. One such friendship is with a man whom I’ve grown somewhat distant from in the last few years, as we have Keep Reading